If there was a must anticipated concert tour of 2011, Sade’s first global tour in ten years would be it. Very few artist can disappear for years and still find a legion of fans still standing before them. But, then again, very few artist are Sade. The dates for the North American leg of the tour are below.

If you don’t know who Cindy Mizelle is, you should! I remember when I first heard this song from her debut album. I was in my third year of college. I instantly fell in love with her voice and the delivery of the lyrics. Ironically, a college friend’s brother wrote this song. She said he wrote it based on their parent’s divorce. Regina Belle would do a remake of the song years later, but it never touched, in my opinion, Mizelle’s delivery. The song was written so beautifully, capturing the innate feeling of ending a relationship, that Mizelle’s voice took those lyrics to another level.

It’s been 14 years since Janet Jackson, the woman orginally known as “Penny” ~or better yet- the Jackson’s baby sister~ released her first greatest hits album, “Design of a Decade.” Since that release, Jackson has continued to top the charts. Her new installment of greatest hits, “Number Ones”, will take you on a musical journey throughout her career that includes singles not previous featured on her albums. Jackson’s ”Number Ones” will remind you just how much she has contributed to the dance and R&B charts over the last couple of decades. Isn’t it funny how time flies?Continue reading »